Dr. Akshay Shah — Senior Consultant in Mumbai

Dr. Akshay Shah is a Senior Consultant at Gleneagles Hospital in Mumbai, with more than 22 years of experience. His profile carries two specializations, medical oncology and hematology.

Stem cell transplantation is the centre of the record, and it comes with a number: he has assisted and performed over 130 stem cell transplants. Bone marrow transplant and autologous stem cell transplant are both on his procedure list, alongside blood cancer treatment for acute leukemia, chronic leukemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma.

His qualifications are MBBS and a DNB in medical oncology and hematology, a single postgraduate degree that covers both the solid tumour and the blood side of cancer medicine. The transplant training came afterwards, as a fellowship in stem cell transplantation at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and the University of Washington Medical College in the USA.

Alongside transplantation, his record notes extensive experience with bone marrow aspirations, biopsies and related procedures. Those are the diagnostic procedures that precede every one of the conditions on his list, and a hematologist who performs them himself controls the path from sample to treatment.

His academic work is recorded as regular contributions through case discussions, presentations and workshops, and as active participation in national and international conferences, including the International Leukemia Conference, the Annual Haematology Conference and the Bone Marrow Transplant Conference. He practises at Gleneagles Hospitals in Parel, Mumbai.